Monday, December 06, 2004
The New Non-Draft Draft?
A nasty new theory I've heard bandied about in the wake of Rep. Sensenbrenner's (R-MI) adherence to immigration law changes being included in the 9/11 bill:0 comments
The U.S. military seems to be quickly running out of uniformed bodies with which to wage the Republicans' upcoming series of new Second-Term wars, along with whatever force we leave behind in Iraq. So someone seems to have come up with a great recruiting tool -- if it weren't so sinister and ugly.
I heard someone mention that some Repubs were entertaining the notion of using "entering the military" as a means for illegal aliens to gain citizenship (the ol' if-they-can-fight-for-us-they-can-vote-for-us lure). Forget haggling over whether they can have driver's licenses, or not; dangle citizenship at them and watch them line up for miles to gain a toehold in the American Dream.
So, they're being asked to move from cleaning up our restaurant kitchens, tending our children, hauling our garbage and building our pre-fab houses, to filling up our homecoming body bags.
Wow. Progress.
Hey, this way, no one in the media would even WANT to have access to the returning caskets, right? Who'd CARE?? And we could cut back on the quality of the wood used, as well. Pine'll be good enough.
And if they actually lived, they could come back, gain citizenship and have the privilege of having their vote not count. But at least they'd be courted by the GOP. What FUN that would be!!
Gosh, think of it. A few years from now, Osama bin Laden could be holed up in his Own Private Alamo, somewhere in Syria or Indonesia or Peru or wherever, and look out at the U.S. forces arrayed before him, and think to himself that they look suspiciously like Santa Ana's army in that Alamo movie he saw on the airplane.
Disgusting.
posted by Gotham 6:57 PM
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